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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Busch, Anne - 2012

managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and …

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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence

Berger, Johannes - 2011

mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for managers who decide upon promotion. Second, we analyze matched employer … indeed substantially higher when managers receive performance-related pay or participate in gain sharing plans …

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The Market for CEOS : Building Legacy and Feeling Empowered Matter

Dupuy, Arnaud; Kennes, John R.; Lyng, Ran - 2022

We develop a two-sided multidimensional matching model of the market for CEOs that allows for both pecuniary and non-pecuniary (amenity) compensation. The model is estimated by maximum likelihood estimation using matched CEO-firm data from Denmark. We show that CEOs have preferences for building...

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Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry

Gill, Andrej - 2020

The financial industry has been struggling with widespread misconduct and public mistrust. Here we argue that the lack of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects with little, if any, trustworthiness into the financial industry. We identify the social preferences...

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Women at the Top in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Sekkat, Khalid - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Trust and Cheating

Butler, Jeffrey - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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Trust, Values and False Consensus

Butler, Jeffrey - 2012

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...

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The Right Amount of Trust

Butler, Jeffrey - 2009

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

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Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?

Nekby, Lena; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders

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Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes : A Large Field Study of Managers

Eriksson, Tor - 2017

-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …

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